CVE-2022-42454 — Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle

Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that may lead to information disclosure. This requires privileged network access.

01What is this vulnerability?

Insights for Vulnerability Remediation (IVR) is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks that may lead to information disclosure. This requires privileged network access.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
HCL Software	BigFix Insights for Vulnerability Remediation	<= v2.0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-19T21:10:13.991Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-16T18:24:00.436Z

09References

• support.hcltechsw.com — https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0102168